Headless Halloween Goosebumps Series 2000 #10 PDF/EPUB Jovial Bob Stine is an American novelist and writer well known for targeting younger audiences Stine who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas including the books in the Goosebumps Rotten School Mostly Ghostly The Nightmare Room and Fear Street seriesR L Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history In the early 1990s Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented bestselling Goosebumps® series which sold than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon His other major series Fear Street has over 80 million copies soldStine has received numerous awards of recognition including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA's Read Across America program He lives in New York NY